Rochester shooting report stemmed from road rage incident

ROCHESTER — Police responded to reports of a shooting near Burger King on North Main Street Monday night, only to find it was an intense incident of road rage.

Rochester police reported when a vehicle attempted to pass another on Rochester Hill Road, tensions rose dramatically. When the two vehicles approached the stop light at the intersection of Franklin Street, one of the vehicles pulled up alongside the other and two parties began screaming obscenities back and forth.

As one of the vehicles pulled away from the other, a reporting party inside the vehicle reported something was thrown or fired at their car. Police responded to the area of North Main Street near Burger King around 7:30 p.m. but said they could not find any evidence of a gun having been fired, or that an item was thrown.

Police Capt. Paul Toussaint said the identities of the parties involved would not be released since no charges were filed in the incident.

“There’s no evidence that anything hit their back windows. There’s no damage or anything,” Toussaint noted. “The guy that supposedly threw something is denying it and we don’t have any proof of anything (like that).”